Zabbix Server Install
Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool that monitors IT infrastructure, including:
Networks, Servers, Virtual machines (VMs), Cloud services, Applications, Databases, and Websites
In this episode we will cover how to setup the server side of Zabbix and in the following episode/article we will show you the agent side.
Our Homelab Topology
The Order of Commands
List of commands used
Some commands MAY change usually just step 2 based on the current version of Zabbix. All other commands should work though.
Install zabbix Commands:
Link to Zabbix's site and the commands can be found here
sudo -s
wget https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/7.0/ubuntu/pool/main/z/zabbix-release/zabbix-release_latest_7.0+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
dpkg -i zabbix-release_latest_7.0+ubuntu22.04_all.deb
apt update
apt install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-apache-conf zabbix-sql-scripts zabbix-agent
Install SQL server
Installs mySQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Starts mySQL on boot
sudo systemctl start mysql
Start it
service mysql start
Then do
mysql
Create the database
sudo mysql
Formats the database type to a the format Zabbix can understand (utf8mb4)
create database zabbix character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
With this one the password section is where you assign your database password
create user zabbix@localhost identified by 'password';
Giving your user access to read and write to this database
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost;
Set trust for the database
set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 1;
Exit mySQL
quit;
Wait a couple minutes after doing the following command, the script takes awhile to work. You won't see any output for a couple minutes
zcat /usr/share/zabbix-sql-scripts/mysql/server.sql.gz | mysql --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -uzabbix -p zabbix
Go back into mySQL
mysql
set global log_bin_trust_function_creators = 0;
quit;
Now edit config file:
nano /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
Look for the DBuser=zabbix section and edit the DBPassword= section with the password you just set earlier.
Save and exit with ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter.
Start services:
systemctl restart zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2
systemctl enable zabbix-server zabbix-agent apache2
Go to your browser to visit:
http://host_machine_ip/zabbix
You will be presented with the landing page, click next.
Make sure everything has a green ok so you know you did it right.
Ensure you add the database user password you just set in that config file so Zabbix's panel can access it.
Set your server name and timezone.
Ensure all settings have been filled out or go back and fix them.
Login, remember the login for username and password is case sensitive! It is Admin NOT admin.
User: Admin
Pass: zabbix
You are in, stay tuned for next episode on how to setup an agent on your servers, VMs, firewalls, etc!
